For the information of your correspondent I send an extract from the
_Gentleman's Magazine_ for February, 1767:
"_Saturday_ 24th (Jan.).--One Patrick Redmond having been condemned at
Cork, in Ireland, to be hanged for a street robbery, he was accordingly
executed, and hung upwards of twenty-eight minutes, when the mob
carried off the body to a place appointed, where he was, after five or
six hours, actually recovered by a surgeon, and who made the incision
in his windpipe called _bronchotomy_, which produced the desired
effect. The poor fellow has since received his pardon, and a genteel
collection has been made for him."